Re: Invocation overhead for procedural languages

From: Martin Gainty <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: Giorgio Valoti <giorgio_v(at)mac(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Invocation overhead for procedural languages
Date: 2008-08-06 13:58:08
Message-ID: BLU142-W12DB464E08A45E5C98839AAE7A0@phx.gbl
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if you're using apache yes your module's performance is related to how many child processes are spawned by mod_prefork

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html

HTH
Martin
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> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> From: giorgio_v(at)mac(dot)com
> Subject: [GENERAL] Invocation overhead for procedural languages
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:44:16 +0200
>
> Hi all, I think I’ve read somewhere in the documentation that the
> invocation of functions written in procedural languages (with the
> exception of plpgsql) incur in performance hit due to the call the
> language interpreter. Is that correct or am I completely off track?
>
> Thank you in advance
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